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Giant fire engulfs Argentina's Patagonia region
Feb 27, 2015 (AFP)
A giant fire ravaged huge swaths of forest in Argentina's Patagonia region on Friday, threatening to engulf villages and a national park with thousand-year-old ...
China shopping mall fire kills 17: govt
Feb 06, 2015 (AFP)
A shopping mall inferno killed 17 people in China, authorities said Friday, the latest deadly accident in a country where safety standards are often flouted. Th...
New research outlines global threat of smoldering peat fires
Jan 11, 2015 (SPX)
The natural disaster plays out like a movie script - ash falling from the sky, thick smoke shutting down airports and businesses across the globe, and uncontrol...
Peat fires - a legacy of carbon up in smoke
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
It reads like a movie script - ash falling from the sky, thick smoke shutting down airports and businesses, road closures trapping remote northern villages. But...
Rain brings relief to Australian firefighters
Jan 07, 2015 (AFP)
Australian authorities said Wednesday they had almost fully contained a destructive bushfire in the country's south, as rain in fire-hit areas brought welcome r...
Bushfires follow Australia's third-hottest year
Jan 06, 2015 (AFP)
Australia experienced its third-hottest year on record in 2014, paving the way for an early start to the bushfire season, scientists said Tuesday as hundreds of...
Australia races to control major blaze before weather worsens
Jan 05, 2015 (AFP)
Firefighters raced Monday to contain a major blaze before the forecast return of strong winds and a heatwave, following the loss of 26 homes in the worst bushfi...
Even in restored forests, extreme weather strongly influences wildfire's impacts
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
The 2013 Rim Fire, the largest wildland fire ever recorded in the Sierra Nevada region, is still fresh in the minds of Californians, as is the urgent need to br...
Australian bushfire survivors win record class action
Dec 23, 2014 (AFP)
Survivors of a devastating 2009 bushfire in Australia won final court approval Tuesday for a nearly Aus$500 million (US$407 million) payout -- the biggest class...
Four homes razed as Australian crews battle bushfires
Dec 18, 2014 (AFP)
Four homes were destroyed as Australian firefighters struggled to bring two major blazes under control in Victoria state with high temperatures and gusty winds ...
Drones could work together to fight fires
Nov 19, 2014 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin and Kaman are pairing large- and small-rotor unmanned helicopters for fighting fires. In a demonstration announced this week, Lockheed's Indago ...
New global wildfire analysis indicates humans need to coexist and adapt
Nov 06, 2014 (SPX)
A new study led by the University of California, Berkeley and involving the University of Colorado Boulder indicates the current response to wildfires around th...
Massive burn scar in Australia's Northern Territory visible by satellite
Oct 08, 2014 (UPI)
NASA's Terra satellite captures a lot of neat stuff using its uber high-tech camera known as MODIS, short for Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer. The...
California burns -- and there's worse to come
Sep 26, 2014 (AFP)
Wildfires are nothing new in California. But in the third year of a historic drought, the tinder-dry western US state is battling near-record numbers of blazes....
Indonesia faces challenging problems to quell ongoing forest fires
Sep 23, 2014 (XNA)
Indonesia is facing challenging problems in dealing with the annual forest fire issue as it is related to perilous attitude of people living around the forest a...
Wildfires rage across drought-hit California
Sep 17, 2014 (AFP)
As many as 6,000 firefighters were battling Tuesday a wave of wildfires raging across California, which is gripped by a historic drought and near-record tempera...
Californians evacuated due to fire
Sep 13, 2014 (AFP)
Forest fires burning near San Diego forced dozens of people to evacuate Friday ahead of a weekend expected to see record temperatures for the season. The Orange...
Fire closes landmark Yosemite tourist trail
Sep 09, 2014 (AFP)
A raging wildfire in Yosemite National Park saw access closed Tuesday to the towering Half Dome peak, one of the most famous landmarks at the world-renowned tou...
Erickson, RADWIN win contracts from California cities
Sep 04, 2014 (UPI)
Aerial firefighting services will continue to be provided to the City of Los Angeles by Erickson Incorporated under a five-year contract renewal. Under the awar...
China arrests three over deadly factory blast: Xinhua
Aug 20, 2014 (AFP)
China on Wednesday arrested three managers of a Taiwanese-invested car parts factory where a massive explosion this month killed 75 people, state media said. Th...
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